The Wearables Clinical Trial is run by a Clinical Team at Massachusetts General Hospital and a Data Analytics team at Case Western Reserve University.
Led by Dr. Chi-Fu Jeffrey Yang and Dr. Xiao Li, the Wearables Team is comprised of physician scientists, researchers, trainees, and students.
Chi-Fu Jeffrey Yang, MD
Dr. Chi-Fu Jeffrey Yang is a thoracic surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital, an Associate of Surgery at Harvard Medical School, and the Founding Director of the Center for Artificial Intelligence, Innovation Research, and Equity (CAIIRE). He practices all aspects of thoracic surgery, including procedures for conditions of the lung and mediastinum. He specializes in minimally invasive techniques.
Dr. Yang has received numerous awards, including recognition for exceptional accomplishment in both clinical care and in teaching. In 2021, he received the Harvard Medical School Charles McCabe Faculty Prize for Excellence in Teaching. Dr. Yang is a member of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery and the Society of University Surgeons.
Principal Investigator
Xiao Li, PhD
Dr. Xiao Li is an assistant professor at Case Western Reserve University. During her Ph.D. study, she received both computational and biological training under the supervision of Drs. Quaid Morris and Howard Lipshitz at the University of Toronto. During her postdoctoral training, she led the wearable team in Dr. Michael Snyder’s lab at Stanford University and performed the groundwork for the proposed research by investigating the impact of wearable devices on health management.
Dr. Li is highly motivated to use machine learning techniques to integrate genomic, clinic, and digital data to monitor changes during healthy and diseased states and improve the ability to prevent, diagnose, and treat diseases. She developed change-of-heart algorithm to use wearable-measured resting heart rate for early warning of infectious diseases, and which has been applied to flag and trace various health and disease conditions, such as COVID.
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